The Swaggie (@Patriotrealm)

Enjoy They say Australia rode in on the sheep’s back. But if you’d been standing in the cane fields of north Queensland, sweat in your eyes and the hum of harvesters in your ears, you might’ve thought otherwise. While the outback echoed with the bleat of wool and the click of shears, another Australia was rising... sweet, smoky, and sharp-edged. This one rode not on the back of a sheep, but on the swing of a machete. The machete: tool of the land - now the weapon of headlines and a handy distraction from what’s really going on. Our country, which owes so much to the machete, is about to ban them. So it got me thinking about sugar... its history and its contribution, good and bad, to our great nation of Australia. read the article https://www.patriotrealm.com/index.php/4146-from-cane-fields-to-controversy-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-machete